Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

Paul Koning via Gcc <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:43:54 -0400

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> On Mar 14, 2026, at 3:02 PM, Jeffrey Law <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 3/14/2026 12:59 PM, Jerry D via Gcc wrote:
>> Some of the various LLM services available appear to be getting very good at generating bug fixes. I realize that one must be careful as these tools can at times do things that may be superfluous to the actual fix. By superfluous I mean lines of code that are not relevant to the lines that fix it.
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>> I saw some discussions of this subject for gcc somewhere and wanted to know if we have a specific policy established / documented somewhere regarding this.
> The steering committee is trying to figure out a good policy right now.
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> Jeff

I remember a discussion on the GDB list recently; that one seems like a good one you could adopt.

	paul